UAlbany playing Gators tough, trail 34-28 at half

ORLANDO, Fla. — The University at Albany has hung with the top ranked team in the country for the first 20 minutes of its second round game in the NCAA Tournament. The 16th-seeded Danes, a 21 1/2-point underdog, went to the locker room trailing top-ranked Florida 34-28 at Amway Center Thursday afternoon.

UAlbany got 10 first-half points from senior guard DJ Evans, who has been playing the best basketball of his career in the last two weeks. The Danes led for much of the first half as Evans and 6-foot-1o center John Puk (six points) hit shots. Evans and Puk combined to make 7 of 11 shots while Gary Johnson also has six.

Casey Prather has 10 points to lead Florida and Dorian Finney-Smith also had 10.

With 10:01 to go in the game, more Siena Thuggery from Billy Donovan and the Gators.
Just dropped D.J. Evans again. Ran right over him like the Newark Archbishop trying to protect his retirement mansion. Or Guv Scott trying to keep his billion-dollar health empire safe from the public.